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@azgibsonz.bsky.social

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Hubby, dad & grandpa. Animal & Nature lover, avid hiker, snarky photography enthusiast...pics are all mine (unless repost) and are mostly captured in northern Arizona or southern Utah. Hope you enjoy the vibe! 🕉

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 4d

😖I find most of the verbiage describing a Red-naped Sapsucker's belly plumage woefully inadequate...😍🕸️

👇So tell me, wordsmiths, how would YOU Alt text her. This should be fun! #WoodpeckerWednesday 🪶

📸 Sphyrapicus nuchalis female 🌿

#Woodpeckers
#LookingAtYou
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin

Red-naped Sapsuckers are black and white overall with a red cap, nape, and throat. They have a long white bar on the folded wing. A black stripe through the eye is bordered by white stripes. The belly is mottled black and white, with a dingy or yellowish cast. Female Red-naped Sapsuckers, like my sweetie clinging to a Slippery Elm sapling here, have a white patch on the chin while males have entirely red chins. That's what you find on teh google. I would say her belly has a cool spiderweb pattern that radiates from her bib, and mixed in with that yellowish cast it sure looks wicked!

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 10m

"Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons"
~Jim Bishop

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#StunDay
#SundayYellow
#Treehuggers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Yesitsfromtodayshikeduh

Hidden high up Aspen Peak, behind 'the Gossips' rock formation, lies a small pocket of trees showing Nature's painting in Fall colors.

Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 1h

That is entirely possible, except for the crow part, he's a raven...and it probably would've been good after hot wings.

A Raven looks around to see if anyone notices him with a chicken wing...you know, the usual Raven diet.

Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 1h

Exactly!

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 1h

Tyty Alan!! 🤘

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Tysm!

Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you! I used to do these hiking threads a lot more, I must be gettin' old! 🤘😁

Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 2h

Now you're #FeelingFall from all that #GreenTherapy #Hiking! Sit a spell. Enjoy the Zen, and thanks for joining the journey! 🕉️

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A thread. 🧵 5 of 5 👇

#Scape
#SundayVibes
#Photography
#GetOutThere
#EastCoastKin
#Autumn

Sitting on the Gossips with the wife, looking northwest...at Las Vegas roughly...

...and looking across to Dean Peak sloping down to the east in the haze below. Thanks for coming along!

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 2h

...at the top, enjoy the view, and find the namesake Aspen!

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A thread. 🧵 4 of 5 👇

#Scape
#SundayVibes
#Photography
#GetOutThere
#EastCoastKin
#Autumn

...still climbing, a little bit further...nice view down the hill though...

...and my wife again captures me in the moment...

...finding the gloriously yellow Aspen hidden behind the Gossips Rock formation...and not another soul in sight.

The tree worth climbing for...the Quaking Aspen.

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 2h

...once past the big glowing orange tree, get ready to climb, taking pictures on the way up!!

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A thread. 🧵 3 of ?? 👇

#Scape
#SundayVibes
#Photography
#GetOutThere
#EastCoastKin
#Autumn

...now above the big orange tree, the mountain top laughs while looming over us...

My wife captures the moment I contemplate a route up...

...which provided this view on the way up...

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 2h

First, you have to hike thru the burn area, recovering nicely...

🍁🌿 A thread. 🧵 2 of ?? 👇

#Scape
#SundayVibes
#Photography
#GetOutThere
#EastCoastKin
#Autumn

The burn area below Aspen Peak showing some signs of recovery...

...including an Acorn Woodpecker, today's birding!

...and you keep going, through a ravine with some bare Aspens..

...and through a little colorful draw with a broken tree...

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 2h

⛰️ We hiked way up to 'the Gossips' today chasing color up the mountain! #FeelingFall #GreenTherapy #Hiking

Wanna come along?? 🍁🌿

A thread. 🧵 1 of ?? 👇

#Scape
#SundayVibes
#Photography
#GetOutThere
#EastCoastKin
#Autumn

On the steep western prominence of Aspen Peak there is an outcrop of rock called 'the Gossips'...no, idk why... but we could see Autumn working her magic at the higher elevations already so up we went...

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Standing Mountain @standingmountain.bsky.social · 8h

To rise in consciousness without love is to stretch into abstraction —
a sky vast yet cold, where light travels without warmth.

To love without consciousness is to burn without form —
a fire fierce but blind, consuming without understanding.

The full bloom of being, presence entwine.

#Andean

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Meandering M🌿 @pathwaymoments.bsky.social · 8h

Sometimes moments are waiting for us 📷🕊️….

Silhouetted ladies enjoying some bench time against a cloudscaped evening sky.

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Meandering M🌿 @pathwaymoments.bsky.social · 1d

This pop of purple is October’s gift! 📷🌱

The purple asters are shining stars every October!

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 18h

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
-Khalil Gibran
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Catch you on the
flip side 🤍🎶💃🤍

Large mushroom on the ground with plants around.

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 4h

"The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it."

-Jim Fowler

an area near a river. there is a gate leading to green and brown grasses with areas of water. In the background are trees and mountains. In the foreground tree branches hang in the top left corner and bushes in the right.

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 23h

“And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

a sunset in the klamath wildlife refuge. There is part of a fence and gate with blurred bushes in the foreground. There is a large area in the middle where grasses and water are visible during the light. In the background are mountains.

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𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚊𝚘𝚕𝚘 @pierpaolo.bsky.social · 15h

In un'aiuola creata da un muro di contenimento in pietra a lato di una strada, delle rose rosse che hanno perso del tutto o in parte i loro petali si stagliano di fronte ad un paesaggio collinare che, all'alba, è illuminato dai primi raggi del sole.

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range dan @rangedan.bsky.social · 4h

more looking up

Looking straight up at a ‘textured’ white and blue sky. Clouds lightly covered the sky, the pattern resembling skin according to reports. A few treetops in silhouette around the edges. From a few days ago

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range dan @rangedan.bsky.social · 22h

last october

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range dan @rangedan.bsky.social · 5h

Oxeye daisy with extra rain

One of a few Oxeye daisies, yellow center with white petals, that are still in bloom along the walk today. Some of the rain that has been falling for days now has almost completely covered the daisy in droplets. It’s surrounded by green leaves

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Anna @downmydirtroad.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve been seeing quite a few Monarchs lately, but this was the first time I’ve seen this beauty.
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A Queen Butterfly on a pink Cosmos. The upper side of their wings are a deep orange with the black edges and little white spots, more white spots curves across the wings. Blurry flowers, other foliage and trees are in the background.

A Queen Butterfly and a Skipper share a pink zinnia. The underside of the Queen is similar to the Monarch and Viceroy with its own little details. The stem of the flower and another stem and leaves are visible on the left side and the background is an overhead door and a little bit of awning.

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 9h

That's the business plan 'round here! 🫶😊

Headin' up the mountain today, try to get ya an elk...😉

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 9h

GOOD MORNING! 👀

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is the 'Family Paridae of Birds' which constitute 'Tits, Chickadees & Titmice'

📸 Poecile gambeli, aka the Mountain Chickadee 🪶

#EastCoastKin
#BirdLovers
#Photography

Just the adorable face of the tiny but fearless Mountain Chickadee.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 12h

Good morning! 🪶

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